HOPEFUL: Steve Parish is keen to appoint a new manager in the next few days [GETTY]

Former Stoke boss Pulis sensationally quit Palace on the eve of the new season leaving Keith Millen in caretaker charge of the club.

Millen oversaw the team's first two Premier League games - defeats against Arsenal and West Ham - but Parish admits he needs to appoint someone soon was so they can have the final say on deals during the dying days of the transfer window.

He told the Croydon Advertiser: “I may have to start picking the players who come to the club! Keith and I were joking about that the other day – I need a manager because they will know which players he wants.

“We buy the players that the manager wants at this football club. We research them but the manager has the decision on who comes.

“We have got a week of the transfer window left so it’s important we get a decision to see who is going to run the place.”

The chairman has only interviewed Malky Mackay and Tim Sherwood for the job but the the former has been caught up in a shock text scandal while the latter ruled himself out of the running.

However, Parish says he hopes to bring in a new man soon despite admitting that finding "the right person isn't easy".

“You read all sorts of things about how many people we’ve seen.

“I have seen very few people, probably two, but spoken to other people about managers and doing background work and due diligence.

“It’s not a revolving door of people coming in and having a chat. We have got a profile of a manager we think needs to carry the club forward based on what I’ve experienced over the last four years.

“Finding the right person isn’t easy. A lot of managers are in jobs and they’re not going to leave clubs early in the season, so it’s a difficult situation.

“We have got to get the right answer and it’s an ongoing process. Obviously I hope to try and have someone in the early part of this (next) week, because we have got the transfer window."